New Testament Survey

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Before coming to grips with an individual verse or passage in the New Testament, Bible students and expositors must understand how it relates to the theme of the book. Robert Gromacki’s New Testament Survey provides a solid foundation for in-depth exegesis of each book in the New Testament.

"The purpose of [this] survey," the author writes, "is to give a working understanding of the message of the New Testament books…My goal has been to make the complex simple and to say much in few words."

This text represents a true survey. It provides an introduction to the New Testament, free of technical discussion. It incorporates historical and cultural backgrounds without becoming a book on manners and customs, and it deals with the actual text of Scripture without becoming a verse-by-verse commentary. This balances presentation avoids skimming the surface or getting bogged down in insignificant details.

The first chapter explores the first-century historical background, social and economic conditions, Gentile religions and philosophies, and Judaistic practices. In the next two chapters, the author discusses the entire New Testament corpus as a whole and the Gospels in particular.

The remaining twenty-seven chapters cover each of the New Testament books. After presenting introductory data for each book, Gromacki provides a detailed outline and a summary commentary. Each chapter concludes with an “Increase Your Learning” section, which presents both individual projects and topics for further discussion. A list of recommended commentaries follows.

The seventy years of exile (605–535 b.c.) gave birth to orthodox Judaism.

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The Talmud states that five key items from the first temple were absent from the second: the ark of the covenant, the Shekinah cloud of glory, the divine fire, the Holy Spirit, and the Urim and Thummim.

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In Biblical history, Xerxes is known as Ahasuerus, Esther’s husband.

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Neither Israel nor the Church accepted the apocrypha as canonical.

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Tradition states that he spared the city of Jerusalem because Jaddua, the high priest, showed him out of the prophecy of Daniel (ch. 8) that he would conquer Persia.